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Experiment and discover your own artistic voice and style! Providing a wealth of inspiration for those new to textile art as well as experienced textile artists, Free Motion Embroidery guides you through the entire creative process – from finding inspiration to designing your own stitched artworks.This revised and updated standalone title is drawn from Katie Essam''s successful Layered and Stitched Pictures in The Textile Artist series. Incorporating a new bonus project, this book showcases Katie''s free machine embroidery techniques. Her fresh, modern style uses unique combinations of traditional techniques, and in this book she shows how to create beautiful textile art inspired by the beauty in everyday objects.With eight projects and lots of inspirational finished artworks to provide inspiration, this book teaches the reader how to draw inspiration from the animals, birds, gardens, beach huts and scenes that surround us all; and use that inspiration as fuel to create gorgeous stitched pictures. 

Upcycle unwanted clothes and home furnishings, and learn how to restitch them into 20 stylish home accessories and garments.

Discover 40 stylish springtime designs specially chosen by Debbie from her much-loved Half Yard (TM) series,

60 beautiful, inspirational painting projects provide inspiration for the watercolour artist.

Learn to draw over 50 fabulous felines in an illustrated style, with just 10 simple visual steps.

Learn to draw over 50 delightful dogs in an illustrated style, with just 10 simple visual steps.

Push the boundaries of abstract art with a mix of media and methods, with the guidance of expert artist Helen Kaminsky.

Want to spin your own beautiful yarn? Expert spinner Vanessa Kroening shows you how in this easy introduction to spinning with a drop spindle. No need to invest in an expensive spinning wheel!"The bounty of photos ensure readers will know how every step should look, and Kroening’s knowledge of the craft impresses. This makes yarn spinning easy." - Publishers WeeklyExpert spinner Vanessa Kroening shows you how to spin in this wonderfully accessible introduction to spinning with a drop spindle. Vanessa explains how to:clean and prepare fleece for spinningwhat to look out for when choosing a fleecehow to card, blend colors, and make rolags and batts.use a drop spindleply your yarn and how to add beads, sequins and other elements, as well as how to dye your yarnSpinning with a drop spindle isn’t just fun – it''s amazingly relaxing and highly creative too. You get to choose the type of fiber, and the colors and thickness of the yarn you make - you can even dye the yarn, and add beads, sequins and other embellishments to create your own unique yarns. A spindle is so compact, you can carry it around town with you and is not even necessary to have to spin. Be inspired and take your knitting, crochet, felting and weaving to a whole new level!

A fabulous collection of 300 stitches and timeless classics to knit.

A collection of 20 sumptuously beautiful, contemporary projects, based on traditional knitting styles and techniques from the Scottish Isles and Scandinavia.

Charles Evans explores the potential of the exciting, accessible System3 range of inks and acrylics.

Sew 25 stylish, reusable projects to help reduce waste.

A fun how-to sketchbook for drawing portraits and selfies!Sketch Your Best Self is a quirky guide to drawing all kinds of faces - starting with your own! The book is split into four sections, covering the basics, how to draw faces, building bodies and selfie style. This comprises how to draw features, how to create different expressions, drawing bodies and limbs and lots of fun stuff including how to create a selfie in pop art style, full colour, monochrome and retro classics style. So pucker up for creating lips, decide if today is a good or bad hair day, practise some photobooth-style expressions, build your friends limb by limb, add some attitude, then try out the fun and whimsical drawing challenges with super fun pages based around Snapchat style filters. Don't be left out - this beautiful book is fully inclusive and can be enjoyed by everyone!

An illustrated directory of techniques for painting 40 popular flowers.

A comprehensive guide to drawing the natural world - from plants and landscapes to domestic and wild animals - by master artist and best-selling author, Giovanni Civardi.

Create stunning 'embroidered' designs with yarns, threads, fabric and more without needing to learn dozens of stitches!

Packed with key skills and friendly know-how, this essential guide is ideal for anyone taking their first steps into dressmaking.

Discover 40 stylish summer designs specially chosen by Debbie from her much-loved Half Yard (TM) series

Learn the ancient art of illumination and hand lettering to create beautiful journal pages, invitations and cards.

In this invaluable stitch guide, Jacqui McDonald, Graduate Apprentice and tutor at the Royal School of Needlework shows you detailed instructions on how to work basic and more complex stitches.

Traditionally white stitches on white fabric, and encompassing a range of techniques, whitework is both beautiful and elegant. Lizzie Lansberry provides a wonderful introduction combining the traditions with new ideas and contemporary design. She covers raised effects, pulled thread and decorative stitches, drawn thread and cutwork.

An inspiring, direct guide to painting beautiful portraits alla prima.

Transform your ideas about creative, fabric embellishment for textile art that's full of meaning and astounding texture, in this inspiring book by award-winning textile art tutor and artist Jan Dowson.

Learn to draw a collection of adorable fantastical creatures, some from myth, some strange hybrids, from Angela Nguyen's own imagination.

Get started with learning calligraphy with this portable, easy-to-use book.

Explore exciting new ways of using graphite, charcoal and mixed media to create dramatic landscape drawings, under the expert tutelage of Robert Dutton.

Over 40 adaptable sweaters to knit for your little ones, based on the classic, minimal and quietly-stunning jumpers of Dutch fishermen.

A practical, step-by-step guide which clearly shows how to create beautiful raised and padded embroideries.

This is a practical and comprehensive guide for all soft pastel painting enthusiasts, from the beginner to the experienced artist.